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IN AFRICA 
specimens as trophies that accounts for the vast 
preponderance of females in the various antelope 
herds. The impalla is seen along the railroad and 
in enormous numbers out along the Thika Thika 
and Tana Rivers. There are also many up in the 
Rift Valley and doubtless in other sections. From 
my own experience and observation they were most 
abundant on the Tana River. 
The wildebeest, or gnu, is found on the Athi 
Impalla Buck and Lady Friends 
Plains and northward along the Athi River and the 
Thika Thika. One need never travel more than 
two hours’ drive or walk from Nairobi to see wilde¬ 
beest, but it’s a different thing to get them. You 
would have to travel many hours, most likely, be¬ 
fore you succeeded in bringing down a wildebeest. 
My first shot in Africa was at a wildebeest at 
three hundred yards. The bullet struck, but so did 
the wildebeest. He struck out for northern Africa, 
and when last seen was still headed earnestly for the 
